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04 August 2006 @ 01:33 pm
Various Life News  
Last Sunday, I took the train downtown to see the better half's band play a showcase of talent nominated for "The Best of Houston" Music Awards. I arrived there late since Joe had to check out the venue first and make certain that the Dancing Marlin wasn't a seafood restaurant and the band finished early after having started early, but it was fun to see them play again.

On the way home on the train, a guy hit on me. It happens so rarely that it surprises me and I'm never sure how best to respond. When I was an angst-ridden teen, Mom assured me that boys weren't asking me out because I intimidated them (me?!?). Since then I've spent little time as a free agent and I suspect I don't send off "available" signals. I'm not outgoing and I suck at small talk. Anyway, it wasn't anything serious, I suspect the guy was bored and passing time but it it's always nice to hear that you're looking good and that someone wants to take you to coffee. Even if I was the only female in the train car.

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Someday, I'll have to post about how weird it is to have grown up mostly as an only child and yet still find myself at this advanced age the eldest of six. Six! To add some salt into the wound, I am the oldest and shortest. I joke that any other sibling I discover had better be Yoda. It's mostly a joke.

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My cousin, an Air Force pilot, has been named Aircraft Commander. I find this an ambiguous term but apparently it means she's in charge of her contingent of pilots and she's the youngest pilot to have been given this position of responsibility. She is made of awesome. I feel only a little guilty for hating her so much when I was a kid. I had a lot of years as the only grandchild and only niece in the family so I didn't greet her arrival as joyfully as I perhaps should have.

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Most exciting to me - 'cause it's all about me - is that today begins my vacation! WOOT! An entire week of owning my own time. We were planning to travel but forces outside my control have scuttled that plan. My mail yesterday brought me the surprise of a "Buy One, Get One Free" ticket to the Body Worlds Exhibit here in town that I've been dying to see. Er, no pun meant. Thank you, Friends of Pride, for that unexpected bonus!

And how am I kicking off my vacation? With a brand new episode of SG-1 tonight. The previews show lots of Ba'al so it could be really great. Or, yanno, it could suck.
 
 
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[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 07:36 pm (UTC)
To add some salt into the wound, I am the oldest and shortest. I joke that any other sibling I discover had better be Yoda. It's mostly a joke.

I'm with ya all the way, honey. I'm the eldest and shortest.

Or, yanno, it could suck.

With Baal in it? The chances of the episode blowing completely are nil as long as that bad boy's in the ep. ;)
Mish: B/J's early night[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:11 pm (UTC)
I'm with ya all the way, honey. I'm the eldest and shortest.

What's up with that? If I have to be oldest, can't I be tallest, too? Well, not taller than the boys but I've got three sisters who are ~5' 10" and 2 brothers who are 6'+. I really think that's unfair. Have I mentioned the sisters are natural blondes? Not, yanno, that I have a complex or anything. ;-)

On the plus side? I'm still taller than the niece and nephew I didn't previously know I have.

With Baal in it? The chances of the episode blowing completely are nil as long as that bad boy's in the ep. ;)

I won't put it past these writers to ruin a Sure Thing. I'm freakishly excited to have Cliff Simon on my screen again. I hope like hell that the episode is worthy of his smoldering. The promise of lots and lots of Cliff lessens the liklihood of sucking of the bad variety...but the guy who wrote it also wrote the Space Corn episode. Great costumes in that one but the story with the amazing, technicolor plot holes? *shudder*
[identity profile] superl99.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:20 pm (UTC)
Have I mentioned the sisters are natural blondes? Not, yanno, that I have a complex or anything.

Don't worry my dear, we always think of you as a real blonde :)
Mish: Sam: Genius[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:42 pm (UTC)
Awwwww. Did I tell you that I always wanted to be a veterinarian because I love children?
[identity profile] riverfox.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:33 pm (UTC)
I liked bits of Space Race. Bits. Would have liked the whole of it if:

-- Teal'c and that brother of the pilot, Warrick, had worn something other than bellhop uniforms.

-- There had been no Hebridean sports coverage. That sucked beyond Wormhole Xtreme.

The mistakes they made took away from something that was promising. To show us a side of Sam that might make sense if they gave it half a chance. But no, it wasn't ship, so therefore not worth exploring. All they really wanted to do was make an alien version of Sportscenter. The disastrous result included the OoC crap with Jack falling asleep on duty in that reception area. Please.
Mish: Team - Leather & Space Corn[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:56 pm (UTC)
Space Corn rather than Race. I'm sorry to say that I've even stopped learning the names of episodes because the lame and bad just kind of all run together after a while.

Space Race had potential, though I was gritting my teeth to watch them take an opportunity to show something new to us and cool about Sam and turn it into being about a race of aliens I cared nothing about and then overlaid it with the idiotic sports show cliche. It was obvious from the amount of time they spent lovingly crafting the sports talk and ads and scrolling language that if something can hold their ADD-addled brains in fascination long enough, that they could engage in flights of creativity. Which brought me back to gritting my teeth in annoyance of the astoundingly stupid Sam-the-pilot cum second banana in a Space Race. I suppose her subsequent melting into the stereotyped female role shouldn't have surprised me as much. *sigh*

Her love of speed and technology and explosives make sense for the hotshot pilot/scientist her character is supposed to be. On the weeks they remember she isn't just a pin up.
[identity profile] roundrockronin.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 08:58 pm (UTC)
Have I mentioned the sisters are natural blondes? Not, yanno, that I have a complex or anything. ;-)

You know, this is an area on which we disagree. As I have told you before, I really liked your natural hair color. I know that you called it a mousy brown, but I liked it. Though the change to red, hit certain triggers. How about long and red? Yeah, that's it....
Mish: Teryl & Amanda -- Janet/Sam[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 09:59 pm (UTC)
I adore the modern world of chemistry because I have not had to settle for mousy brown in many a moon. And I'm not falling into the trap of describing length and color for your pervy hair kink.
[identity profile] roundrockronin.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 10:08 pm (UTC)
And I'm not falling into the trap of describing length and color for your pervy hair kink.

Not even a little?....
Mish: Teryl & Amanda -- Janet/Sam[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on August 4th, 2006 10:41 pm (UTC)
Didn't you develop an appreciation for that beautiful, super-straight, rich black hair while over in Japan?